Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Abreu '11, who played the part of "Boulinard," gave the most finished presentation, and continually drew a laugh from his audience. "Bodard," the role played by J. Heard '12, is certainly the most difficult to impersonate on account of the frequent and sudden changes from delight to despair. C. Chadwick '10, as the cook was the most successful of the women. M. Hoffman '12, as Cecile, was pretty, but not a girl in love, for in her encouragement of her despairing fiance she shows no emotion or feeling whatever...
...welcome this great company of Delegates from the universities and colleges in every part of our country has been a true delight; to reflect what their presence means for the solidarity of American education, and co-operation in solving its problems, is an inspiration, and to me a great encouragement. To you, Sir, as their spokesman, we desire to express our gratitude for your kind words. On more than one occasion you have yourself depicted the tasks that lie before us in sentences of fire; and I trust that in solving them, American institutions of higher learning will ever...
...prize poem, "John Milton," may be regarded as a welcome addition to what seemed to some of us our inadequate celebration of the poet's tercentenary; and it deserves the high praise of being called worthy of its lofty theme. Mr. George Meredith, whom also we ought particularly to delight to honor, since Harvard men were among the first to recognize his peculiar genius, is the subject of the ablest article in the issue. It is not a criticism which can be termed original, learned, or profoundly analytical; but it is an appreciation which, by means of cleverly intermingled quotations...
...power and durability it has throughout the world. Whoever lays a brick in its walls builds to last, and I hope every one of you will build a little in the walls of Harvard. Today the living force of Harvard is in its mass of graduates. It is a delight to see that force increase and that delight is the reward of the men who serve the University...
...only too glad to come to his addresses. At Freshman receptions, at meetings of the Union, at Brooks House conferences, at academic meetings in Sanders, at dinners and at other occasions without number, he has spoken on subjects of every description and he has never failed to interest and delight his hearers. Whatever the matter at hand, the speaker's breadth of vision and masterful handling have astonished his audiences, accustomed as they are to hearing men with only one subject, and hardly able to conceive of one individual who apparently knows a good deal about everything in this world...